I Am a Camera

I Am a Camera

    Author: John Van Druten

    First Performance: 1951, New York

    Published: 1952

    Genre: Drama in 3 acts

    Setting: Fräulein Schneider's flat, Berlin, c.1930

    Cast: 3m, 4f

Christopher Isherwood is a young English writer who has come to Berlin and rented a room from Fräulein Schneider. He wishes to note as objectively as possible his impressions of the city and especially its political upheavals with street battles between Fascists and Communists: ‘I am a camera, with its shutter open, quite passive.’ He meets and falls in love with fellow lodger Sally Bowles, a flamboyant English singer at a local nightclub, even though she openly admits that she has just had an abortion. Each pretends not to be possessive about the other: Christopher agrees not to probe her past and stifles his...

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